UK Torture Memos and a Blast at Yoo's "Hard Work" Defense

For a great fisking of Yoo's claim that there's no legal basis for defining torture, head over to Looking for Someone to Lie To's post, Yoo can't be serious.

For the latest torture memos, look to the UK. In defiance of a gag order, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, has released memos that are being described as revealing US/UK collaboration to condone torture. I'll read and analyze these in the near future, but you can read them for yourself at this Craig Murray blog.

BlairWatch is calling on all bloggers to replicate the documents to prevent them from being pulled back behind the veil of secrecy. So here they are in PDF format:

Telegrams.pdf: A series of telegrams that Craig sent to the
Foreign Office, outlining his growing concern and disgust at our use of
intelligence passed to the UK by the Uzbek security services.

Legal Advice.jpg: A copy of legal advice the Foreign Office
sought, to see if they were operating within the Law in accepting
torture intelligence, and according to Michael Wood the FCO legal
adviser; it is fine, as long as it is not used as evidence.

UPDATE: Check out this Crooks and Liars audio of John Yoo explaining just how far he believes the president can go - torturing children.